SATYA PAL SINGH Vs. STATE

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Charged for murdering his wife Gyanwati, Satya Pal Singh has been convicted for offence punishable under Sec. 302 Penal Code and directed to undergo imprisonment for life vide judgment and order on sentence both dated Sept. 22, 2001.

(2.) Sanjeev Kumar S/o Satya Pal Singh and Gyanwati, maker of the FIR stated that his father Satya Pal Singh was earlier working in DTC but because of addiction to smack, he was removed from service. His father used to demand money from his mother and beat her daily. On the night intervening March 15-16, 1999 he along with his two brothers was sleeping in their room and his parents in the other room. Around 2.30 AM in the night he woke up to urinate but could not open his room because the same was latched from outside. On peeping from the window he found his father in the courtyard and when he asked his father why his room was latched, without saying anything, his father opened the latch. After urinating, Sanjeev slept. When he got up at 5.45 AM in the morning, again his room was latched. He banged the door and after some time, a papaya seller who was in the gali opened the main gate and latch of his room. When he came out of his room and went to his parent 's room, he saw his mother Gyanwati lying on the floor in a pool of blood. Near her body, one scissor and Pana (chabi-pana) were found. His mother had injury mark on the neck. He suspected that his father who was not at home at that time had killed his mother.

(3.) Post-mortem on the body of Gyanwati was conducted by Dr. S.K. Verma PW-7 who found the following injuries on the deceased:-